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A lightweight bout has been added to the upcoming UFC Fight Night 115 fight card as Andrew Holbrook meets Thibault Gouti at the event.
UFC Fight Night 115 will be held on 2 September 2017 at Ahoy Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
A heavyweight bout between former Bellator Heavyweight Champion Alexander Volkov and Stefan Struve will feature as the main event of the evening.

Ask and you shall receive; former UFC lightweight champ Anthony Pettis had called for a matchup with Dustin Poirier, and he will apparently get his wish in UFC Fight Night 120’s main event.
UFC officials haven’t formally announced the bout, though Pettis’ (20-6 MMA, 7-5 UFC) longtime head coach and mentor confirmed the showdown with Poirier (21-5 MMA, 13-4 UFC) on social media
With the addition of the main event, the latest UFC Fight Night 120 card now includes:
Anthony Pettis vs. Dustin Poirier
Karl Roberson vs. Darren Stewart
Cezar Ferreira vs. Nate Marquardt

Joby Sanchez is getting another crack at it.
The flyweight is returning to Dana White’s Contender Series to take on J.P. Buys in the seventh installment. The lineups for both DWCS 7 and 8 are set to close out the first season.
DWCS 7 takes place Aug. 22 and DWCS 8 on Aug. 29, with both events hailing from The Ultimate Fighter Gym in Las Vegas and streaming live on UFC Fight Pass.

Opponent switches are seldom “groovy,” but at least Lando Vannata has plenty of notice.
Vannata was scheduled to meet fellow lightweight contender Abel Trujillo at UFC 216, scheduled for Oct. 7 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Monday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that the Jackson-Wink MMA product would no longer be facing Trujillo, but would now be taking on “King” Bobby Green instead. The promotion did not give a reason for Trujillo's removal from the contest.

The stable of talent at Team Alpha Male continues to grow with the addition of UFC women’s bantamweight contender Sara McMann.
McMann (11-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) has officially joined the team in Sacramento, Calif., ahead of her scheduled bout with Ketlen Vieira (8-0 MMA. 2-0 UFC) at UFC 215, which takes place Sept. 9 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with the main card on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

UFC strawweight contender Rose Namajunas it the latest to pose nude for a media publication.
Namajunas (6-3 MMA, 4-2 UFC), who is expected to challenge unbeaten champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) for the UFC’s 115-pound title later this year, took part in the recently launched “Naked in 3 Words” campaign from Women’s Health.

Former UFC and WEC fighter Javier Vazquez, 40, is in need of financial support after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
Vazquez (16-5 MMA, 1-0 UFC) last competed in MMA in June 2011, earning a unanimous-decision win over “The Ultimate Fighter 2” winner Joe Stevenson. The UFC, WEC, EliteXC and King of the Cage veteran recently underwent surgery to have a tumor removed and is now facing a regimen of chemotherapy.
One of Vazquez’s, friends recently launched a GoFundMe page to help raise money for medical care, establishing a goal of $35,000.

Mark Hunt’s career just keeps on trucking.
Hunt, coming off a hard-fought win in his last fight, will return to face Marcin Tybura in the main event of the upcoming UFC Fight Night event in the Australian city of Sydney.
Polish website Lowking.pl first reported the match, which MMAjunkie subsequently confirmed with multiple UFC officials. A formal announcement is expected early next week.
The event, which takes place Nov. 19 at Qudos Bank Arena, marks the 11th time the UFC has headed to Australia and fourth to Sydney. Due to the time change, the card airs on Nov. 18 in the U.S. on FS1.

UFC light heavyweight Marcos Rogerio de Lima has been pulled from his scheduled Sept. 2 bout against Saparbek Safarov at UFC Fight Night 115 after being flagged by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for a potential anti-doping violation, the UFC announced Friday.

Fully healed from a cervical injury that removed him from UFC Fight Night 112, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira will now return at UFC Fight Night 120 to take on Jared Cannonier, as Combate reported.
The 41-year-old Nogueira (22-8, 5-5 UFC) will try to bounce back from a TKO loss suffered by the hands of Ryan Bader in November 2016. His last win was a TKO victory over Patrick Cummins in May 2016. Nogueira hasn’t won two fights in a row since he defeated Tito Ortiz in 2011 and Rashad Evans in 2013. Despite being in the UFC for almost eight years, injuries have limited him to just 10 fights in the organization.